LEAPFROG
leapfrog
(noun) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
leapfrog
(noun) advancing as if in the child’s game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors; “the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends”
leapfrog
(verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments
leapfrog
(verb) jump across; “He leapfrogged his classmates”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
leapfrog (countable and uncountable, plural leapfrogs)
(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
(chiefly, Britain, law, usually, attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
Verb
leapfrog (third-person singular simple present leapfrogs, present participle leapfrogging, simple past and past participle leapfrogged)
(transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
(transitive) To overtake.
(intransitive) To progress.
(transitive, chiefly, Britain, law) Of a case: to appeal or allow to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
(transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
Source: Wiktionary
Leap"frog`, n.
Definition: A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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